Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Ffordeis a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 January 1961
should-have quality fine
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
eight tea spoons
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
thinking eight knowing
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
destiny odd
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
optimism share my-own
I wished I could share my own optimism.
asking unanswered-questions answers
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
people people-dont-change dont-change
People don't change just because you know more about them.
espresso white heartache
To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache...
garden six-months hackers
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
mirrors people literature
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.
book degrees creeps
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
character might nuance
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
landscape lord form
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
errors principles mankind
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.